Meta attributes for resources in data collections

[jasminb]

Meta attributes for resources in data collections

[hndmrsh]

Regarding the workaround using @emetsger's PR: the workaround does not successfully deserialize all fields (it is not deserializing the is_friend attribute to the boolean isFriend field on my model).

Solved this issue: it was due to not having setters for the boolean fields. Were you aware this was required?

[emetsger]

@hndmrsh

Solved this issue: it was due to not having setters for the boolean fields. Were you aware this was required?

No, I didn't realize that setters were required. Are you using the @Meta annotation from my develop-wip branch in concert with the setters, or did you use the vanilla develop branch in concert with setters?

Another alternative that may work, which I haven't tried, is to use some Jackson magic to deserialize the meta member in your JSON (@AnySetter?).

[hndmrsh]

@emetsger

The setters were used for boolean fields inside my @Meta-annotated models, which were based on your develop-wip branch.

The @AnySetter approach is interesting, and that could very well work as a workaround also. If I have time to investigate it today, I will look into it.

With regards to the original issue of not being able to access metadata for objects within a collection: are you likely to address this at some point in your develop-wip branch? it looks like this has been solved with PR #41.

Thanks very much for your contributions to this project so far 😄

[jasminb]

Hey @hndmrsh please check #41 and close the issue.